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Indian star tears into England following defeat in first Ashes Test
Former Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin has lambasted England after their colossal loss against Australia in the opening Ashes Test on Sunday in Perth. Ashwin slammed England's reckless batting performance, which helped Australia finish the game inside two days. Australia, who were chasing a modest target of 205, were powered to an eight-wicket win by makeshift opener Travis Head, who blasted the second-fastest century in Ashes history. Head finished on 123 off just 83 balls with four sixes and 16 fours, putting England on the ropes. Notably, England were bowled out for 172 and 164, respectively, across both innings.
"I am actually thinking, where will the bandwidth of the word ‘reckless’ remain? If you keep putting everything into that bandwidth, how reckless can even reckless get? I don’t want to take names of players. Even in the Indian team, there will be many next-generation players who, the fielders are back on the boundary, yet they take the chance, they hit lofted shots,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.
Ashwin asserted the fact that England should have batted a lot longer after having a 40-run lead.
"As a batting group, how reckless can you be? Because on Day 1, you were knocked out for 172, you lost five wickets for maybe 20 runs. After that, your bowling attack wrestled the initiative back, gave you a 40-run lead. Your first job as a batting unit is to give your bowlers enough rest."
"Rahul (Dravid) bhai always said, give your bowlers overnight rest and see how your bowlers respond. Today, they came and cleaned up the last wicket. The England bowlers, I am sure, would have wanted to put their feet up, and in no time they were back on the park looking to defend 200 (205), which is paltry,” he said.
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